"Josepha Weber (Maria) Josepha Weber (later Josepha Hofer, Josepha Meier; 1758 – 29 December 1819) was a German soprano of the classical era. She was a sister-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and the first to perform the role of The Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"" (1791). She was born in Zell im Wiesental, in present-day Baden-Württemberg, Germany, the daughter of Fridolin Weber. She had three younger sisters (in descending order of age): Aloysia, who was an early love interest of Mozart and sang in his later operas; Constanze, who married Mozart in 1782; and Sophie."
"Gottfried Weber Jacob Gottfried Weber (March 1, 1779 – September 21, 1839), was a prominent German writer on music (especially on music theory), composer, and jurist. Weber was born at Freinsheim. From 1824 to 1839 he was the editor of ""Cäcilia"", a musical periodical published in Mainz, which influenced musical thought in Germany during the early Romantic era. He died at Bad Kreuznach. His most important work is his ""Versuch einer geordneten Theorie der Tonsetzkunst (Theory of Musical Composition)"" (Mainz, B. Schott, 1817–21), which introduces several concepts that have since become important in the study of music theory. In this"
"Gottfried Weber Jacob Gottfried Weber (March 1, 1779 – September 21, 1839), was a prominent German writer on music (especially on music theory), composer, and jurist. Weber was born at Freinsheim. From 1824 to 1839 he was the editor of ""Cäcilia"", a musical periodical published in Mainz, which influenced musical thought in Germany during the early Romantic era. He died at Bad Kreuznach. His most important work is his ""Versuch einer geordneten Theorie der Tonsetzkunst (Theory of Musical Composition)"" (Mainz, B. Schott, 1817–21), which introduces several concepts that have since become important in the study of music theory. In this"
"Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. Weber's operas ""Der Freischütz"", ""Euryanthe"" and ""Oberon"" greatly influenced the development of the ""Romantische Oper"" (Romantic opera) in Germany. ""Der Freischütz"" came to be regarded as the first German ""nationalist"" opera, ""Euryanthe"" developed the ""Leitmotif"" technique to an unprecedented degree, while ""Oberon"" may have influenced Mendelssohn's music for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and, at the same time, revealed Weber's lifelong interest"
"Sebastian Mayer (Friedrich) Sebastian Mayer (actually Meier, 1773 – 9 May 1835) was a bass singer and stage director of the Classical era. Mayer was born at Benediktbeuern. In 1793, he joined the theater company of Emanuel Schikaneder. On 23 December 1797, he became the second husband of Josepha (Weber) Hofer, the sister of Constanze Mozart. Constanze was the widow of Mozart, who had died in 1791. Mayer's best man at this wedding was Emanuel Schikaneder. In 1805, he participated in the premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera Fidelio, taking the part of Pizarro. The role apparently gave him difficulty,"
"Friedrich Weber (musician) Friedrich (Frederic) Weber (5 November 1819 – 16 February 1909) was a German organist and composer. Born in Künzelsau, Württemberg, Weber studied music in Stuttgart, and became a teacher at the Pestalozzi-Institut in Worksop (Nottinghamshire) in 1841 after spending a year in Esslingen. 1845 he was appointed organist at the „Hamburger Lutherische Kirche“ (Hamburg Lutheran Church) in the City of London. For 52 years, from 1849 to his retirement in 1901, he served as organist at the German Chapel Royal at Saint James´s Palace. He married in 1851 and died in London in 1909. As a composer,"
"German opera, in reaction to the Italian opera which had dominated the European music scene since the 18th century. On 4 November 1817, he married Caroline Brandt, a singer who created the title role of ""Silvana"". In 1819, he wrote perhaps his most famous piano piece, ""Invitation to the Dance"". The successful premiere of ""Der Freischütz"" on 18 June 1821 in Berlin led to performances all over Europe. On the very morning of the premiere, Weber finished his ""Konzertstück in F minor for Piano and Orchestra"", and he premiered it a week later. In 1823, Weber composed the opera ""Euryanthe"""
"""Oberon"") and Hindemith (composer of the popular ""Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber""). Weber also wrote music journalism and was interested in folksong, and learned lithography to engrave his own works. Weber was born in Eutin, Bishopric of Lübeck, the eldest of the three children of and his second wife, Genovefa Weber, a Viennese singer. The ""von"" was an affectation; Franz Anton von Weber was not actually an aristocrat. Both his parents were Catholic and originally came from the far south of Germany. Franz Anton began his career as a military officer in the service of the"
"5, 1762, Weber's daughter Constanze Mozart (died 1842), was born in Zell, who later married Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Another daughter of Weber, also born in Zell, was the singer and vocal pedagogue Aloysia Weber, (died 1839), who was born in the city between 1759 and 1761. Johann Faller was born in Todtnau, but he worked in the Zell textile industry and was responsible for social issues in Zell, including the founding of a reading society and the Zell fire brigade, As a deputy of the Second Chamber of the Badische Standesgemeinschaft, he also managed the construction of several streets in"
"Zell im Wiesental Zell im Wiesental is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, on the river Wiese, 26 km northeast of Basel, and 32 km south of Freiburg. The town is famous for being the birthplace of Constanze Weber, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Franz Fridolin Weber (1733-1779), was born as the son of an official in Zell. In 1754, at the age of 21, he was also appointed an official by Freiherr Ignaz Ludwig von Schönau, and in 1756 he married the Cäcilia Stamm from Mannheim. On January"
"Extraordinaire"" in 1842, remaining there until 1861. During this period he acted as conductor at court concerts and on special occasions at the theatre, gave lessons to a number of pianists, including Hans von Bülow, who married Liszt's daughter Cosima in 1857 (before her marriage to Richard Wagner). He also wrote articles championing Berlioz and Wagner; which in addition was the time at which his lasting reputations as a truly musical composer (rather than virtuosic performer) was forged. His efforts on behalf of Wagner, who was then an exile in Switzerland, culminated in the first performance of ""Lohengrin"" in 1850."
"1785, at the age of 21, Genovefa married the 51 year old Franz Anton von Weber (1734-1812) at Schottenkirche, a parish church in Vienna. It was Weber's second marriage. He had two daughters and two sons from his first marriage; and three children with Genovefa. Two of their children died in the childhood. Franz Anton was in the official service of the Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim, after which he served as a military officer in the service of the Duchy of Holstein, then, as a music director of a traveling theater group, before became a Kapellmeister at the Princely Court in"
"and annexed by Württemberg. As a symbol of his alliance with Napoleon, Frederick's daughter, Princess Catharina, was married to Napoleon's youngest brother, Jérôme Bonaparte. The newly elevated king's alliance with France technically made him the enemy of his father-in-law, George III. However, the King's dynastic connections would enable him to act as a go-between with Britain and various continental powers. In 1810, Frederick banished the composer Carl Maria von Weber from Württemberg on the pretext that Weber had mismanaged the funds of Frederick's brother, Louis, for whom Weber had served as secretary since 1807. During the German Campaign of 1813,"
"or longer guest appearances. On April 23, 1862, she married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and was raised with this morganatic marriage to the Freiherrenstand. With the wedding she withdrew from the stage entirely and lived with her family at Castle Radmeric. Their compositions for chamber music and church music, however, were still performed. After the death of her husband she moved to Paris. Constanze Geiger was buried in Montmartre cemetery. Constanze Geiger Constanze Therese Adelaide Geiger, Freifrau von Ruttenstein (16 October 1835, Vienna - 24 August 1890, Dieppe) was an Austrian pianist, actress, theatrical actress, composer and singer."
"Ilse Weber Ilse Weber (11 January 1903 – 6 October 1944) née Herlinger, was born in Witkowitz near Mährisch-Ostrau. A Jewish poet, she wrote in German, most notably songs and theater pieces for Jewish children. She married Willi Weber in 1930. She was voluntarily transported to Auschwitz with the children of Theresienstadt and killed in the gas chambers, along with her son, Tommy. Her most popular book was ""Mendel Rosenbusch: Tales for Jewish Children"" (1929). As a child she learned to sing and play guitar, lute, mandolin and balalaika, but apparently never considered a career as a musician. In 1930"
"there. Fridolin died in the following month, and Cäcilia scrambled to keep her family afloat. Aloysia's suitor Joseph Lange agreed to help support the family with an annual stipend of 700 florins when he married Aloysia, 31 October 1779. Cäcilia also made some income by taking in boarders. It was in this way that Mozart re-entered the Webers' lives. In 1781 he settled in Vienna, hoping to pursue his career there, and on 1 or 2 May 1781 he became a boarder in their home (in a building called ""Zum Auge Gottes"", ""God's Eye""). Cäcilia asked Mozart to move out"
"two notes by humming while playing—a technique known as ""multiphonics"". His bassoon concerto and the ""Andante e Rondo ungarese"" (a reworking of a piece originally for viola and orchestra) are also popular with bassoonists. Weber's contribution to vocal and choral music is also significant. His body of Catholic religious music was highly popular in 19th-century Germany, and he composed one of the earliest song cycles, ""Die Temperamente beim Verluste der Geliebten"" (""[Four] Temperaments on the Loss of a Lover""). Weber was also notable as one of the first conductors to conduct without a piano or violin. Weber's orchestration has also"
"Stamitz, and belonged to the Mannheim school. In the summer of 1778 he married the soprano Franziska Danzi, one of the most outstanding and well-known singers of the time and the sister of composer Franz Danzi. With her he travelled extensively across Europe: Milan, Paris, London, Vienna, Prague, Naples, Munich and Berlin. The couple's playing and singing complemented each other perfectly and arias with ""obbligato"" oboe were written for them, as for instance those in ""Günther von Schwarzburg"" (1777) by Ignaz Holzbauer, ""L'Europa riconosciuta"" (1778) by Antonio Salieri and ""Castore e Polluce"" (1787) by Georg Joseph Vogler. The music historian"
"of Weber's son, was performed by Richard Wagner. His unfinished opera ""Die drei Pintos"" (""The Three Pintos"") was originally given by Weber's widow to Giacomo Meyerbeer for completion; it was eventually completed by Gustav Mahler, who conducted the first performance in this form in Leipzig on 20 January 1888. Weber's piano music all but disappeared from the repertoire. One possible reason for this is that Weber had very large hands and delighted in writing music that suited them. There are several recordings of the major works for the solo piano, including complete recordings of the piano sonatas and the shorter"
"Invitation to the Dance (Weber) Invitation to the Dance (""Aufforderung zum Tanz""), Op. 65, J. 260, is a piano piece in rondo form written by Carl Maria von Weber in 1819. It is also well known in the 1841 orchestration by Hector Berlioz. It is sometimes called ""Invitation to the Waltz"", but this is a mistranslation of the original. Weber dedicated ""Invitation to the Dance"" to his wife Caroline (they had been married only a few months). He labelled the work ""rondeau brillante"", and he wrote it while also writing his opera ""Der Freischütz"". It was the first concert waltz"
"main theorbist, Orazio Clementi. At the 1706 carnival he made his debut as an opera composer with ""Cleotide"", and in 1713 was appointed as a court composer. In 1708, with the death of Clementi, Conti was promoted senior theorbist, a position he held until 1726. In the same year he was elected a member of the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna and in 1711 he was appointed ""vice-Kapellmeister"" (""vice-maestro di cappella"") in Vienna. In April of that year, after the death of his first wife, Theresia Kugler, Conti remarried to the prima donna Maria Landini, at that time the highest-paid singer"
"setting for ""Veni Sancte Spiritus"" is the one best known to Catholics outside of the plainchant version. Webbe married Anne Plumb in 1763. They had eight children of the marriage, the eldest son Samuel Webbe the younger also being known as a musician. Samuel Webbe Samuel Webbe (1740 – 25 May 1816) was an English composer. Born in Menorca in 1740, Webbe was brought up in London. His father died when he was still an infant, and his mother returned to London where she raised Webbe in difficult circumstances. At the age of 11 he was apprenticed to a cabinet"
"waltzes of Frédéric Chopin and others. Film biographies of Carl Maria von Weber have appeared under the titles ""Aufforderung zum Tanz"" (1934), and ""Invitation to the Waltz"" (1935). Invitation to the Dance (Weber) Invitation to the Dance (""Aufforderung zum Tanz""), Op. 65, J. 260, is a piano piece in rondo form written by Carl Maria von Weber in 1819. It is also well known in the 1841 orchestration by Hector Berlioz. It is sometimes called ""Invitation to the Waltz"", but this is a mistranslation of the original. Weber dedicated ""Invitation to the Dance"" to his wife Caroline (they had been"
"Erna Sack Erna Dorothea Luise Sack (née Weber, 6 February 18982 March 1972) was a German coloratura soprano, known as the German Nightingale for her high vocal range. Erna Weber was born in Spandau, Berlin. As a child, her voice attracted attention both at school and in the church choir in which she sang. In 1921, she married Hermann Sack, of Jewish descent. She studied at the Prague Conservatory, and later in Berlin with Oscar Daniel. Her career accelerated in 1930 when her uncanny ability to sing stratospheric high notes, including C7 (C above high C), was discovered. (Richard Strauss"
"his pedagogical research led him to use random, a rather flexible technique, assimilable by young performers (""Concertante"" for guitar and guitars, 1993). Each work poses a different musical problem, however, Weber's compositions evolve through a certain unity, never revealing a real break. Alain Weber Alain Weber (born 8 December 1930) is a French composer and music educator. Born in Château-Thierry, Weber began his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1941. First Grand Prix de Rome in 1952, he won the same year the Sogeda Prize for his ballet ""Le Petit Jeu"". Lecturer at the Conservatoire de Paris since 1957,"
"anomaly until one of his students presented a new explanation (Weiss 1912, pp. 49–50; Pais 1982, pp. 391–392). Weber married Anna Hochstetter in 1875. The couple had three daughters and five sons, all of which became academics: Oskar: chemist; Friedrich: geologist; Ernst: civil engineer and astronomer; Helmut and Richard: physicians. Albert Einstein considered Weber as doctoral advisor. Following a bitter disagreement with Weber, Einstein switched to Alfred Kleiner. Einstein also famously once commented that Weber's lectures were 50 years out of date and did not contain Maxwell's equations. Heinrich Friedrich Weber Heinrich Friedrich Weber (; ; 7 November 1843 –"
"the United Kingdom. His first compositions developed in the 1930s. In 1942 he married the pianist and violinist Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993). The marriage, which lasted until his death, produced two sons: composer Andrew (born 1948) and cellist Julian (born 1951). From 1945 until the mid-1950s, Webber composed vocal and instrumental music, choral and organ works, chamber music and orchestral works. Works from this period include the oratorio ""St. Francis of Assisi"", the orchestral tone-poem ""Aurora"", the Sonatinas for viola and flute, numerous songs, organ pieces and choral works. But Webber's roots were firmly embedded in the romanticism of such"
"John Paul II on the same date. Joan Weber Joan Weber (December 12, 1935 – May 13, 1981) was an American popular music singer. Weber was raised in Paulsboro, New Jersey and married to George Verfaillie, a young bandleader. She was pregnant in 1954 when she was introduced to Eddie Joy, a manager, who in turn introduced her to Charles Randolph Grean, an A&R worker for RCA and Dot Records in New York. Grean gave a demo of Weber singing a song called ""Marionette"" to Mitch Miller, the head of artists and repertoire at Columbia Records. Miller took a song"
"Weber (1712–1758). In fact, the work was written in 1745–50 in imitation of Bach's example. While Bach can safely claim the title ""The Well-Tempered Clavier"", he was not the earliest composer to write sets of pieces in all the keys: As early as 1567, (c.1520–c.1577) wrote a cycle of 24 passamezzo–saltarello pairs. In 1584, Vincenzo Galilei, father of Galileo Galilei, wrote a Codex of pieces illustrating the use of all 24 major and minor keys. In 1640, Angelo Michele Bartolotti wrote ""Libro primo di chitarra spagnola"", a cycle of passacaglias that moves through all 24 major and minor keys according"
"Eberhard Weber Eberhard Weber (born 22 January 1940 in Stuttgart) is a German double bassist and composer. As a bass player, he is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, minimalism and ambient music, and are regarded as characteristic examples of the ECM Records sound. Weber began recording in the early 1960s, and released ""The Colours of Chloë"" (ECM 1042), his first record under his own name, in 1973. In addition to his career as a musician, he also worked for many years as a television and theater director. He has"
"colloquial in Gozzi's version, lose their naïve nature and even speak in well-formed verses in Schiller's work; they also contribute to the more severe and moralistic atmosphere in Schiller's adaptation. Carl Maria von Weber based his 1805 ""Chinese Ouverture"" on a Chinese theme found in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ""Dictionnaire de musique"". Weber's friend, the composer Franz Danzi, was employed as Kapellmeister in the Stuttgart court of King Frederick I of Württemberg, and when Weber obtained a non-musical position as the private secretary of the King's brother, Duke Ludwig, Danzi encouraged Weber to write some music for a performance of Schiller's play"
"soon after Sophie was born. Cäcilia first met Mozart in 1777, when he came to Mannheim in search of a job. He fell in love with her daughter Aloysia during this stay, and departed for Paris after finding no permanent position in Mannheim. The family later moved to Munich, where both Aloysia and Fridolin had found jobs in the opera. It was here that Mozart encountered them again (and was rejected by Aloysia), during his journey homeward to Salzburg. The Weber family moved to Vienna in September 1779, still following Aloysia as she pursued her career at the German Opera"
"and was acknowledged by Stravinsky as the model for his ""Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra"". Weber's shorter piano pieces, such as the ""Invitation to the Dance"", were later orchestrated by Berlioz, while his ""Polacca Brillante"" was later set for piano and orchestra by Liszt. Weber's compositions for clarinet, bassoon, and horn occupy an important place in the musical repertoire. His compositions for the clarinet, which include two concertos, a concertino, a quintet, a duo concertante, and variations on a theme from his opera ""Silvana"", are regularly performed today. His Concertino for Horn and Orchestra requires the performer to simultaneously produce"